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DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex DeGeorgey.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Battlefield: The Search for World War II’s Missing in Action by DPAA and Its Partners", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This study focuses on the archaeological forensic recovery conducted at a WWII U.S. bomber crash site in Germany. Through a multidisciplinary approach, including excavation techniques, forensic anthropology, and historical analysis, the research aims to systematically recover and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason, T. Raupp. Mark Keusenkothen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "East Carolina University Partnerships and Innovation with Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In February 1945 a Consolidated PB2Y-5R Coronado crashed into Kwajalein Lagoon while attempting to land after a regularly scheduled flight from Honolulu. The conditions of the wrecking event resulted in the forward portion of the aircraft being torn off and sinking in the seadrome...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sabrina Ta'ala.

Artifact collection and analysis is a foundation of all archaeological research, and the methods used to record and draw meaning from the material culture we encounter on archaeological sites are generally standardized across subdisciplines.  But field decisions about what to keep, what to disregard, and how to record and quantify it all are invariably informed, to some extent, by our research goals.  When it comes to war-related sites excavated by U.S. Department of Defense teams with the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy Borrelli. Nathan Richards. Jason, T. Raupp.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "East Carolina University Partnerships and Innovation with Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The 2019 ECU Program in Maritime Studies Fall Field School was a collaborative research project with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) on sites located at Kwajalein Atoll. The primary focus of the project was the investigation of an archaeological site of interest to DPAA,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abigail C. Bleichner. Sam M. Cuellar.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Exploration-Forward Archaeology Through Community-Driven Research", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In May 2023, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency partnered with NOAA Ocean Exploration to complete its first funded partner mission to the far reaches of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. As part of the Seascape Alaska 1: Aleutians Deepwater Mapping expedition, NOAA, DPAA, and the veteran-owned remote sensing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer F McKinnon.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "East Carolina University Partnerships and Innovation with Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. ECU’s Program in Maritime Studies recently engaged in a partnership with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency and their mission to recover lost service members from past wars. As part of that relationship, ECU hosted a two-year fellow, and took on several missions in both Europe and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael R. Dolski.

This presentation describes DPAA’s Strategic Partnerships program, which is a novel effort within DoD to leverage the resources and expertise of external sources. Partnership categories broadly include public-private partnerships (P3s), grants, cooperative agreements, voluntary arrangements, and even contracts. The intent is to expand or improve DPAA’s ability to account for the missing by selectively outsourcing some components of the overall workload. In addition, DPAA pursues initiatives that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin G. Gilbertson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Applying the Power of Partnerships to the Search for America's Missing in Action", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Kwajalein Atoll contains one of the largest lagoons in the world, surrounded by tiny islands making up about 6 square miles, 2,400 miles from Hawaii. A number of Americans are missing in this lagoon, extending the Defense POW/MIA Acounting Agency’s mission to this isolated area. A small team of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shaheen Christie. Eava Snodden.

This is an abstract from the "Fulfilling a Nation’s Promise: The Search, Recovery, and Accounting Efforts of DPAA and Its Partners" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological recovery of missing service personnel on conflict landscapes have increased since 2015 through strategic partnerships between the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) and volunteer organizations, heritage and cultural resource management (CRM) businesses, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Campbell. Andrzej W. Święch.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Applying the Power of Partnerships to the Search for America's Missing in Action", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. DPAA expeditions have been conducted in Poland since 2019, carried out the land research in West Pomerania and Lower Silesia. In cooperation with Cranfield University first underwater expedition was planned at 2022 in West Pomerania. The project focuses on three B-17s lost in 1944 during bombing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frederick H. Hanselmann. Austin Burkhard. Jason J. Nunn. Arthur C.R. Gleason. Jessica Keller. D. Blair Moore.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Applying the Power of Partnerships to the Search for America's Missing in Action", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Near the end of WWII, a B-25G departed an airfield in Trinidad for a 50 mile, 4-hour long photographic mission to Tobago. After hearing an airplane overhead, eye witness accounts detailed a craft with potential engine problems that turned into a ball of smoke and flame that plummeted from an...